Robert Anthony Williams v. Crispus Nix, Warden of the Iowa State Penitentiary

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

When this case was last before us, we directed that a writ of habeas corpus be granted unless the state commenced proceedings to re-try Robert Anthony Williams, the petitioner, for murder. We held that the State of Iowa had not proved that the police acted in good faith when they obtained statements from Williams that led them to the body of the murder victim. Therefore, in our view, the fact that the body had been discovered could not be admitted into evidence on the theory that the police would inevitably have found it even absent Williams’s incriminating statements.…